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內容簡介: |
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third
Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and
miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy,
Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the
ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great
drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. Beginning
with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at
Dawn follows the British and American armies as they fight the
French in Morocco and Algeria, and then take on the Germans and
Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and
sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting
force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible
commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower,
Patton, Bradley, Montgomery and Rommel.
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關於作者: |
Rick Atkinson is a former staff writer and assistant managing
editor at The Washington Post, and the bestselling author of The
Long Gray Line and Crusade. His many awards include the Pulitzer
Prize.
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